Improvement in spool-holders



JOHN-B. GlBBS.

Improvement in Spool-Holder. No. 126,199, PatentedApri|30,1872.

JOHN B. GIBBS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND JEROLD N. WHITE, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SPOOL-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 126,199, dated April 30, 1872; antedated April 16, 1872.

vented a certain new and useful device, which I term a Spool-Holder, adapted for holding spools, for filling the bobbins of sewing-machines and analogous uses, and allowing the thread or silk -to be delivered therefrom, as required, with a uniform or nearly uniform tension.

The device is intended to be held in the hand and to form a cheap and convenient auxiliary to the sewing-machine without being attached thereto. The sewing mechanism or any other means being employed to give a proper rotatory motion to the bobbin which is to be filled, and the thread being attached thereto by the ordinary or suitable means, the spool is held in my spool-holder with just a sufficient tension to lay it upon the bobbin with just sufficient tightness.

The following is a description of what I consider the best means of carrying out the invention.

The accompanying drawing forms a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a face view of the device, the friction-spring, which is essential to its fullest success, being removed; and Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same, with the friction added to. form the complete device.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

A B are conical points, of iron or other similar material, secured firmly, by riveting or otherwise, in flat springs to b, which are connected together and adapted to be held by the hand while the points A B stand in the opposite ends of the hole in the spool, and, being pressed gently together by the force of the springs a b, induce a gentle frictional resistance as the spool is turned around in drawing off the thread in the act of filling the bobbin. In both the figures the springs to b are formed of a single piece of fiat steel. In Fig. 1 it is of moderate length and backed by another spring,

G, which is secured by a screw, d, to a convenient handle, E, which may be made of hard wood. Fig. 2 shows the same completed by the addition of a friction-spring, M, which is fastened by a screw, m, on the side, to the. same handle E, and presses gently on the surface of the thread in the spool, thus increasing the resistance to the revolution of the spool, and consequently to the delivery of the thread.

To remove a spool and introduce another it is simply necessary to spring open the springs a b by the finger and thumb of the one hand while the spool is handled by the other.

I claim as'my invention- The described hand implement, composed of a handle, withspringarms a b carrying points A B, and having the side friction-spring M, all arranged to serve in combination, as herein specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN B. GIBBS.

-- Witnesses: n

O. G. Lrvrncs, p H. M. BREWSTER. 

